Chapter 19: Nothing to do with wanting to make trouble
Just after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, work began on the construction of the Dragon King Temple on the river embankment south of the village.
Definitely out of our expectations, in the construction of the temple of the Dragon King, the enthusiasm and enthusiasm of the masses is unprecedentedly high, just a small temple only, come to help build the people, even reached hundreds of people. The speed of building the temple, naturally, just two days time, the whole temple on the cover up, the Dragon King Temple north-south width of four meters, east-west length of six meters, the wall is three meters high, the highest tile roof five meters, the whole temple compared to the village of the grandmother's temple, but also on the big some.
Covered, ventilated for more than half a month, the wall is slightly dry, the villagers began to decorate the Dragon King Temple, but also just a day's time only. That the Dragon King Temple glazed tile roof, the temple white lime brush walls, a statue of the Dragon King was also carried into the temple, the temple door above the hanging of a date wood plaque, oiled with black paint, on the book "Dragon King Temple" three red characters, the door on both sides of the sides of the brush both sides of the cement, above a couplet carved out: the heavenly word of good things, back to the palace descending good luck. The font is also red.
Outside the temple door to fix a piece of land, placed a stone incense burner, seventy centimeters high, about sixty centimeters in diameter, incense burner on both sides of the carving of six dragons, or riding on the auspicious clouds, or swimming in the tip of the wave, alive and well.
Just inside the temple door, the Dragon King statue in front of, placed a large square table, painted dark brown, placed on both sides of the master chair two, the table has four candlesticks, a small incense burner, the statue of the two sides of the steps, but also placed candlesticks on one side of each of the three.
Although the labor is said to be the village people volunteer to help build, but the material is still to spend money, it is said that the Dragon King Temple really did not spend a lot of money, but are the villagers to collect money to build up. For this, our gang is really admire the village that a few old ladies, their appeal is really strong, even if it is the village secretary to call on the villagers, I'm afraid that can not achieve such an effect.
Of course, this also has to be attributed to Hu Lao Si and the old age, if not for the old age with spiritual power to induce the gang of old ladies to believe that the existence of the Dragon King, Hu Lao Si stirred up the fire, pretense to use the Taoist law to cajole the masses, it is estimated that the gang of old ladies do not bother to get the Dragon King Temple, they also want to believe in the grandmother temple of that Xuanmu Niangniang it.
For these things, a few of us young people scoffed, and at the same time also told the family, do not participate in the construction, not to mention the money to raise funds. Because we are the most aware of the construction of the Dragon King Temple this story behind the scenes, there is no Dragon King, to say that there is, it is also a Jiao only. However, we also absolutely do not hope that no one in the village to raise funds to build the Dragon King Temple, after all, this temple is necessary to build up, this is the old auger and the old age of the commitment, we can not renege on the promise. Even if the old jiao ascension, ate the old age, so that we lost a powerful helper, a good friend, but people old jiao helped us a big favor, remove the evil in the village, solved the dispersal of the soul curse on my body, this is a real thing, besides, the old age of the old age before he went, also promised the old jiao, we can't go against the will of the old age, so sorry for it.
That day in the Black Dragon Cave, we were struck by lightning fainted, woke up, as the old man said, in front of the cave entrance on the platform, found a piece of yellowish meat as the size of a tea bowl, said meat, rather than stone , because that thing than the original old man's meat to be a lot of hard, Hu Laoshi said that this is the old man's spirit core, we will be a few of the spirit of the core of the package, took it back.
After returning to the village, a few of us went to the Yangshupo Taiyou Temple, dug a deep hole in the middle of the temple, until the soil seeped out water, we placed the old age of the spirit of the nucleus into the pit to fill in the burial, and then cleaned up the temple, lit a few columns of incense, and have sincere worship, before leaving the temple to return home.
Although, we know very well, burn incense, worship, for the old age to speak, not help at all, the old age of the spirit of the core will not know, but we still did that, in order to inwardly, to give themselves a comfort.
After this matter, our group of young people, began to wait with anxiety, alert at any time may come to the evil, these evil, will harm the village people, will disturb the normal life of the villagers. We have this obligation to protect the peace of the village, too old to go, the village can deal with the evil, the only remaining Hu Laoshi an old man, but after all, old age, he alone is not, need our help.
That's what the old man told us before he left, and we have to do it.
Besides, to do this kind of thing do not need to be alert all the time, pay attention to, not delay we go out to work to earn money, or to go to the ground to do farm work and so on, anyway, there are Hu Laoshi sit in the village, what news at any time to notify on the line.
But at that time the twenty to twenty years old young man wanted to go out to work, a time really can not find a suitable job, because a few of us said that we want to go to work, we hope that everyone can go, at least each other have a companion, but the local can not find such a one time to be a number of people's work, and on the foreign work to go, we think about it, we think, we are two years, have to keep the family in the ground, we have to protect the village of the peace and quiet, is not it? What if something evil comes?
Hu Laoshi said, and so on a three or two years, encountered a suitable evil, such as the previous black snake spirit that kind of thing, raised in the village, one is to protect the peace of the village, anyway, there is no evil, those superstitious old ladies old ladies small daughter-in-laws, but also the same to go to the temple on the offerings burning incense. Secondly, we are gradually growing up, we have to start a family, can not be every day on the dead waiting to do this kind of clergyman's work, right?
That is to say, sooner or later we still have to raise an evil thing.
This makes us feel especially twisted in our hearts, what's the matter? We fight evil things, and evil things with the death of you and me, in the end still have to raise an evil thing, so that the village people to worship, this is not bullshit? After all the fuss, feelings we still did not do the evil things to kill all ah, and so on pants farting, redundant well.
If I had known that, we did not fight with the black snake spirit, keep it, we also save a great risk, experienced so many things, and in the end came back in a circle.
After we think about it, there is really no other way, just as Hu said, we can't spend our whole life with the evil things that may or may not appear, right? Life is short, we also want to think of the future life is incredibly colorful it.
Idle words not to mention, and say that our gang is also older, and can not be like the previous days idle sneaking around, steal a chicken touch a dog, do not work to make money can not be ah! Good in a few of us have a large number of yellow wolf clip, also know how to catch the yellow wolf, this thing if the average daily catch a three or five, really more than going out to work to earn more, and keep the home in the ground, but also convenient is not?
So after the first month, a few of us again manipulated those to catch the yellow wolves, began to stay up every night to go to the poplar tree slope under the clip to catch the yellow wolves, of course, the village side of those cemeteries ah, wasteland ah, the old house circle ah, and so on, we will be under the clip, anyway, there are a lot of clips, idle is also idle, as long as there is a one in a thousand chance, we have to be under the clip to fight, we have to make the clip to wait for the stumps in there! The yellow wolf.
But after two months of fighting the yellow wolf, we found that this thing is less and less, the first is that the yellow wolf is after all limited, like us such a large-scale under the clip to fight, how many can not withstand the daily catch ah! Secondly, this thing is very smart, time is long, also found that our village around the child is not a place to stay, the earth is very dangerous, they have jumped to the distance, looking for safety on Mars to go.
So we had to put under the clip to catch the scope of the coyotes expanded to the surrounding villages, just for this matter, also fought a number of times. The reason is that we in other villages on the edge of the next clip, the result is occasionally even secretly took our clip, steal the fruits of our labor, lost many times after the clip, we began to squat from village to village to guard, waiting for the thief's appearance, appeared once, hit once, grandma's bear! He's crazy, he dares to take my sheep by the hand, how dare he?
Some people hit once, then do not dare, some people hit once, there is a next time, we have to hit again, which is more difficult than catching coyotes to stay up all night, you always have to be caught before you can beat them, right? There are also people who are even more difficult to get, after being beaten, will even pull a group of people over to fight a group fight, revenge!
This is naturally inevitable to fight, sometimes we win, sometimes, we lose, after all, the good man can not stand more people! But when the next day Chen Lockzhu and my second uncle to find the village, to fight with us after the gang to find out, they are completely convinced, ten miles of the countryside, who dares to mess with Chen Lockzhu and Zhao Erniu? Who doesn't know that Chen Shuozhu is a life-threatening fighter? Who doesn't know that Zhao Erniu is even fiercer and tougher than Chen Shuozhu? And it is said that Zhao Erniu is now in Handan Road is very prosperous, dominated the underground gangs in Handan.
When my brothers and I know the two cow uncle now in Handan mixed mob, and mixed very bull baked, a group of young people to discuss, simply carry the meat and wine to find my second uncle, try to beg the second uncle also take us to Handan mixed. As a result, all of the things we carried were thrown into the street by the second uncle, and we were severely reprimanded, and I also received two slaps. The second uncle said: "In the future, no one think to go to the crooked road, who dares to go out to mix the mob, I will break the legs of whoever. If it's good, why don't I take Chen Lockzhu out too? He's a good fighter, fierce, and my sworn brother! Why don't I take him out? You little bastards still want to go out, no way! Get out, all of you!"
So, we all came back, and went to work on the traps, catching coyotes.
Time is getting longer and longer, the evil has not appeared, we young people hanging vigilance heart, also began to slowly fade a lot, thinking that the evil should be aware of the village has such a group of us, do not dare to come, right? Think about it, if we were evil, we know the village has such a group of newborn calves are not afraid of tigers of the young, will not come to find uncomfortable ah, the black snake spirit and white fox spirit is powerful enough, right? The black snake spirit and the white fox spirit are powerful enough, aren't they? But didn't they let these young people give the scourge of death?
Without the evil, every day either to work in the field, or at night wandering around to catch wolves, we feel more and more boring, feel that life is no longer exciting, thinking of looking for some excitement. Chen Jin even mentioned that we should go outside to look for evil things, and if we encountered some kind of spirit or monster, we would have a fight, how exciting and exciting ah!
Guo Chao and Yao Jing said no, we can fight a monster, but if we fight a spirit, it's too small.
I said I can't scare you to death, can't we borrow a few talismans from Hu Laoshi and hold them? Plus my belt made of Wuzui leather, enough!
Liu Bin said no to take our home that black cat to start!
When he said that, we were all startled, even Chen Jin shook his head no. This is not a joke, the black cat. This is not a joke, that black cat in the end what is not yet know it, in short, very powerful, even the old age have been several times to warn us, do not go to mess with that black cat, if there is no guessing, that thing eighty percent of the demon, we can not afford to mess with.
Liu Bin is very helpless, although he hates the black cat to the bone, but can not force the brothers to go to play with the black cat, right?
When we found a group of people Hu Lao Si borrow talisman, the cause of a said, Hu Lao Si immediately firmly rejected us, he did not allow us to go out to fool around, said that the village is fine quite good, do not go out to look for trouble, in case our village would not come back to the evil, the results of you a few go out to provoke the evil, even the villagers that would not be good.
He said so, we a few also gloomy, this is true, earlier these evil things, not all is our gang of people do nothing to cause trouble to come out of it? We can't go out and cause trouble again, God knows what kind of chaos will be caused.
In this way, the village was quiet for a long period of time, until after cutting wheat, planting rice, into the June summer.
Weather day by day hot, hot people heart irritable, irritated, our young people have to go to the river every day to take a bath, or else feel sticky uncomfortable.
And catching yellow wolf thing, but also in the harvest of wheat before, was stopped by us.
Originally stopped catching yellow wolves, because to be busy, the beginning of the busy, that is a month, the first ten days of wheat harvest, wheat, ten days of plowing, leveling, after ten days on the water rice planting. After this season, we are too lazy to go catch the yellow wolf, summer yellow wolf less, difficult to clip to, and the weather is too hot, the night field mosquitoes and bites difficult, young people who want to go to suffer that crime ah? In addition, the first few months we catching coyotes income is very rich, rest for a period of time so what?
After the agricultural work, I do not know is the village idle hard, or those old ladies do not want to see the village has been calm, they began to instigate the village to repair the temple, the village of several temples are all repaired, and then greeted the villagers began to offer incense, so that each temple are flourishing. What to say years ago is not because of the great disrespect to the gods, for a long time less offerings, angered the gods came tornado? Besides, the village for a long time without worship, the gods do not bother to protect our village, in case something happens, we can not afford these mortals.
I just wonder, I don't know how the village people think, those old ladies say these, there are so many people believe, still willing to listen, willing to pay money to repair the temple, buy those paper ah wax ah meat ah fruit ah go to the temple worship, usually their own family can't afford to buy some fruit and meat to eat, it's good to buy a good thing to the temple, and then after the worship of the fruits of the meat is not fresh to take back to eat, it's not a waste of things waste of things to eat. Eat, this is not a bad thing to trample on things to trample on themselves?
There is no way out, superstition, superstition, this kind of deep-rooted thinking for thousands of years, it is really difficult to eliminate.
Yao Jing, Guo Chao, Chang Hanqiang, Liu Bin and their families, but also people anxious, the children have clearly told them that the temple is now nothing, not to mention the gods, not even the gods of the fart, but those parents, but also do not listen to their children, but instead, reprimanded the children do not know what to do. You can't help but be angry.
There is nothing in that temple! Even the evil things are not, if there is evil things, Hu Lao Si would have greeted us, and we have a bunch of guys who are so idle that their eggs hurt, can't wait for the evil things to appear, as long as it appears, will immediately rise up and attack, and will be blown away to slag. Seriously, a bunch of people idle for so long, think of many times years ago with the evil struggle, all think the evil is not very powerful, as long as you dare to do it, you can do it to death!
Our idea, even got Hu Lao Si nodded recognition, for our attitude, Hu Lao Si also greatly appreciated, encouraging us to have such courage, of course, to comply with the people do not offend me, I do not offend the guidelines.
This makes us even more rampant, do not know the sky and the earth! Didn't the old taiyou once say the same thing? Nowadays, in this world, can have the white fox spirit that kind of cultivation of the evil, very few, in that case, then for the other less powerful than the white fox spirit of the evil, we naturally do not care about it, joke! Black dog spirit that thing looks fierce, not just a show up, let us a few people to kill it? We also ate its meat, the big black dog chewed its bones, my father peeled its skin to make a shoulder and knee pads.
So we all rubbed our fists, expecting a real evil thing appeared in the village, a good fight, otherwise, this summer, the heat of the people are irritable, how to get rid of this gas out of it?
Hu Laoshi said, "Wait and see, the evil thing will appear soon."
We asked him why he was so sure.
Hu Laoshi replied, "The village to repair the temple, most likely not the gang of old ladies out of the blue, but these old ladies occasionally go to the village outside the time, by the evil thing to confuse the mind, induced them to come back to the temple to repair the temple, the evil thing so that they can come to live in and enjoy the offerings."
So that's how it was, our group of young people nodded their heads in recognition, that's how it was.
But I do not know how, at first still hold dry fist rubbing palms hoping that the evil came to do a battle, kill a few evil addicted to find some excitement it. However, listening to the words of Hu Laoshi, learned that the evil is likely to appear soon, a few of our hearts, are inexplicably nervous.
Is it possible that we are afraid?